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It's a pity they're not standard in many other languages. I'm not a fan of having to type first/rest or playing around with syntax soup and I really miss caddadadaddaaaaaring around.
sub car { $_[0] } sub cdr { shift; @_ } # every utils module ever
How is that? My understanding is that lipid oxidation promotes insulin resistance itself.
If anything, and under the right dosage, sugar is protective.
Well I'd say inflammation is rather a symptom of problems, but yeah, it sucks and should be avoided.
But can't blame all on sugar, since some processed foods and lean meats (!) promote that cycle as well. So the best way to avoid it is by not overeating.
I agree with you though, that since it's difficult not to overeat when abusing simple sugars, most folks will do better without them.
Assuming LDL is a bad thing, low carb diets (which are usually high fat diets) tend to spike it up as well, and at a greater rate.
People on ketogenic diets and below maintenance calorie intakes end up reporting high levels of LDL, with high levels of HDL to balance it out. Now, give them a hundred more calories above maintenance and things start to get funny.
Calories in vs calories out might be an oversimplified model, but so is blaming everything on insulin as Taubes does, as he still believes it's the only factor promoting fat storage.
I'm confident this post has actually done a disservice to the question why should we eat less carbs, but hopefully it's something you might find interesting and read more about and maybe change your opinion on.
Been there, done that. I've been in keto for years until I crashed. Not anymore.
So I can eat a few chicken breasts a day, and then 1,500 kcal of mars bars? Sounds great!
Doesn't it?
The only issue with sugars are the null effect on satiety and promotion of binge eating. The reason some folks work so well on lowcarb diets is because sugars make it easy to overeat, but that's just a way to create a caloric deficit for them.
Now, I bet most folks here on HN are much more quantitative oriented than the average person, so why limiting yourself to a small set of foods (paleo, keto), when you can free yourself and get away eating pretty much whatever you want, as long as you track the calorie intake?
Wow at the low-carb comments. Way to reject a dogma with another dogma.
I have a daily intake of 400g of carbohydrates. According to you I'd be overwheight and dying of diabetes, cancer, metabolic syndrome and whatnot.
Exercise daily, provide adequate protein intake and watch out the calories. That's it. No need to blame food but yourselves.
So what's exactly going to happen if you somehow break the chain?
You're all being gamed by a flashy calendar.
I second this. Chicken's community is the friendliest and least toxic I can think of.
Ahhh... those were the days...
Smartphones are useful. They're an invaluable resource that might even save your life someday.
What you really need is to lay off the twitters and the instagrams.
I couldn't care less about programming exercises, but I'd love to have some mini project ideas or examples at the end of every chapter so you can put in practice what you've just learn. I've found that I learn stuff better when I try to adapt code examples to some domain of my own, but sometimes you just lack the drive or are tired of working on the same set of personal "hello world" projects.
In this regard Practical Common Lisp is a killer book. Definitely one of my favorites. It's really a pity that there aren't many other books mimicking its style (recommendations are welcome).
Wonderful, I'm using it to learn Clojure and work on 4clojure problems.
What I really miss for this purpose is having some kind of live doc feature.
I think I saw it first in Perl.
Get an Asus Zenbook UX32VD (the one with the dedicated card and 1080p screen), update the HDD for an SSD of your choice and up the RAM.
Take a look a Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell for a quick review. You'll be surprised how much stuff you forgot already!
Then you can move to a discrete math book like Discrete Mathematics with Applications or Mathematics for Computer Science (free pdf courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/fall10/mcs-ftl.pdf) and any Calculus book of your liking.
There are also great resources to learn Math using Haskell. I'm working through The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming and it's proving to be great http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books_and_tutorials/Mathe...
I really like Vim as a concept, but the implementation is somewhat laking and not so easy to extend.
At the moment I'm using Emacs with EVIL (Vim layer) and loving it. You should check it out :)
A great programmer, sure! A good developer... I don't think so :) But I'm not here to discuss semantics.
I wouldn't recommend that course at all and I would even rate it as an utter failure.
It is not aimed to people with basic programming skills. The code snippets mostly consist of complex, clever one-liners and the examples are bit unfortunate.
You just need to take a look at the forums and see the prevailing discontent. Folks who had just completed CS101 were just not able to get past the very first units. And instead of addressing this problem, they just apologized and (rightly) ranked the course under the advanced category!
He'll be better off reading PAIP. Which is an excellent, timeless book. And still the best way to learn Common Lisp IMO.
Norvig has all the potential to be an excellent teacher, but he should stay away from mentoring introductory courses.